Oh gosh, I relate. I had a similar data issue happen recently. Managed to get everything important backed up, but it was a couple week old backup.
My main machine is currently running exclusively off SSDs to hopefully prevent such a failure in future. But I need to figure out a better backup solution.
I was hoping if the drive was to fail, at least it would give some sign. Well it did emitted some bad block error in the logs but I never noticed them, then it went clicking this morning.
I’m still too cheap to buy SSD for data hoarding purpose so I’ll keep rolling with platter for a bit longer. Just ordered a HGST.
Oh gosh, I relate. I had a similar data issue happen recently. Managed to get everything important backed up, but it was a couple week old backup.
My main machine is currently running exclusively off SSDs to hopefully prevent such a failure in future. But I need to figure out a better backup solution.
I was hoping if the drive was to fail, at least it would give some sign. Well it did emitted some bad block error in the logs but I never noticed them, then it went clicking this morning.
I’m still too cheap to buy SSD for data hoarding purpose so I’ll keep rolling with platter for a bit longer. Just ordered a HGST.